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...close on her white-shod heels (517.5 points) was vivacious, Audrey Peppe (pronounced peppy) of Manhattan. So eager is Miss Peppe to follow the figure-eights of her aunt, Beatrix Loughran, who held the title in 1925-26-27, that she went abroad last summer to study under Sonja Henie's skating instructor. Behind Miss Peppe came one representative from each of the three oldest U. S. figure-skating centres: Katherine Durbrow of Manhattan, Polly Blodgett of Boston (runner-up to Maribel Vinson last year) and Jane Vaughn of Philadelphia...
...twice (1932 and 1936), and world champion thrice, he has competed in 200 meets, placed 190 times, won no times, broken 50 records. His older brother, Sigmund, won the U. S. championship while on a visit last year and placed fifth last week. The Brothers Ruud are-next to Sonja Henie-Norway's greatest athletic pride. Born in a little silver-mining town of Kongsberg near Oslo, which has produced more topflight ski jumpers than any other spot in the world, little Birger Ruud won his first championship when he was seven years old. Since ski jumping...
...Merman sings with her usual lid-off verve, like a hotcha stenographer at a house party, and skates a little bit. Ameche and Romero spark like worn-out cigaret lighters. A swing quintet, headed by Raymond Scott, tears into something called the War Dance of the Wooden Indians. And Sonja, hovering on the outer edge, looks on with bland, pudgy good nature, putting in a word here & there in excellent parrot English, and probably wondering, in Norwegian, what to do until the ice freezes again...
...Happy Landing Sonja Henie received $80,000, bringing her cinema earnings for three pictures to $210,000. On the well-based belief that Sonja Henie is showing the biggest box-office appeal since Charlie Chaplin, Producer Zanuck has contracted to pay her $125,000 each for next season's three pictures...
This week, while Happy Landing played five times a day at Manhattan's 6,000-seat Roxy Theatre, Sonja herself was spending at least 35 minutes a night for five nights in her Hollywood Ice Revue on the broad ice patch of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, Jan. 17). From her personal appearances, which began last month in Chicago and will close late next month in Miami on an especially constructed rink, her net earnings will approximate...